When US responded to #ICJ ruling of plausible case, by stripping all funding from #UNRWA, I argued that was active US execution of #Genocide against #Gaza. New spending bill defunding it until 2025 outstrips that in viciousness & scope.
ALSO NOTE her citation of CNN reporting from 3 wks ago: UN clearly says Israeli govt ***used torture on UN staff*** to extract false confessions.
Today in Labor History March 5, 1906: U.S. Army troops beat the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, during Moro Rebellion, Philippines. However, it wasn’t even close to being a battle. The U.S. had overwhelming firepower, slaughtering nearly everyone they encountered, men, women and children, and then posed with the corpses. Only six people survived. Mark Twain said, “In what way was it a battle? We cleaned up our four days’ work and made it complete by butchering these helpless people.” The Moro Rebellion (1899-1913) was a liberation struggle against U.S. colonialism by Muslims in the Southern Philippines, (Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago).
I see this instance has a *nice* *long* character limit for posts.
I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.
In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.
Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.
#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia
Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.
Very interesting read. I have no clear opinion on it yet, but it surely broadens the context and increases the complexity of the current Russian-Ukrainian war.
The author provides three scenarios that in his opinion result from the weakening of the Putin regime:
Scenario 1: "stalinization" of Russia; scenario 2: collapse of Russia; scenario 3: involvement of the oppressed nations of the Russian Empire even in the current conflict in Ukraine.
In his view, scenario 1 leads to a continued war in Ukraine; scenario 2 could lead to proliferation of nuclear weapons and a large refugee crisis; scenario 3 could lead to a rather peaceful dissolution of the Russian empire. Furthermore, Scenarios 1 and 2 could lead to a rise of China and only scenario 3 may prevent China's interference in the partition of the crumbling Russian Empire.
«Thus, the need for the West to change the agenda from the previous narrative of preserving the centralized Russian state, essentially an empire, to the independence of the enslaved peoples and helping them, is urgently needed today. Ukraine could, despite the difficult military conditions, more actively and massively attract to its side a resource that has not yet been fully used, namely representatives of non-free non-Russian peoples. Despite the huge Russian propaganda pressure, there are more and more opponents of the Russian empire among them. [...]
We must understand that the Russian liberal so-called opposition, which is in exile abroad, is categorically against the decolonization, disintegration and denuclearization of Russia. Its desire to maintain a centralized state with nuclear weapons under the façade of democracy clearly shows that the Russian liberal opposition was and remains an imperial project. And it is they who today pose the greatest danger to the independence of the captive peoples of the empire, both in the Western political field and in the Russian empire itself. From the rhetoric of Khodorkovsky, Milov, members of Navalny's team and other Russian pseudo-liberals, we know that such a threat really exists.»
Americanos are pissed that they can't have bananas year round if #degrowth/ #communism/ #anarchy happens. Banana availability has its roots in imperialism, destructive monocropping, and grueling agricultural labor/slavery.
We literally have a word for client states of #imperialism for the export of bananas: banana republic. Banana imports to the West is drenched in the blood of thousands massacred for your God damn commodities. In the #Philippines, companies told this instruction to banana worker syndicalists: “turn them into fertilizers for the bananas.”
On top of that is the steep ecological and carbon costs to actually shipping the damn things. Do you really need bananas year round?
There's also the problem of monocropping which destroys the biodiversity of forests to make way for plantations, even if we discount the slave labor. Monocropping has made Cavendish plantations at high risk of diseases. It could very well be that Cavendishes would become an endangered species just like the Gros Michel after nature erases its scourge. Maybe the extinction of the Cavendish is already a matter of time, rendering banana disocorse moot.
Americanos just don't understand that in a liberated world, maybe people won't be breaking their backs for some Americano to get their god damn banana. Of course degrowth/communism/anarchism means that relations to luxuries will change.
Besides, Cavendishes suck. They literally taste terrible. Y'all seriously live like this? Lakatan and Sabah tastes way better. Yeah, they can't be exported, boohoo. Not everything has to be a commodity, much less to please some Americano half a world away.
The hungry of this world are still dying every day. Between 2014 and 2023 alone +56000 migrants died or disappeared in the Mediterranean, victims of #capitalism and #imperialism.
My course "Introduction to Japanese History" is heading towards #imperialism. So let's see a #JapaneseGarden of the times.
In 1894/96, Yamagata Aritomo built #MurinAn in #Kyoto using a reward for his role in the Sino-Japanese war. The garden's Western building also served for a conference in which 4 elder statesmen prepared for the Russo-Japanese war.
Newspapers presented Murin-an as a political site. In a caricature of 1899, you can see #Yamagata pondering a railway project in China.